Wolverine & The X-Men is the third series for Marvel Comics popular team of mutants — The X-Men. In this incarnation Professor Xavier and Jean Grey are taken out by a mysterious explosion and the X-Men disband in the aftermath. In the year since the explosion things have gone from bad to worse for mutants with them being rounded up and imprisoned. After Wolverine helps a family in need he sees how badly the world needs the X-Men and decides to reform the team.
The production team is the same as X-Men: Evolution from a few years back. They’ve taken the best parts of that series and improved by leaps and bounds. The producers decided to use one of the best X-Men storylines, "Days of Future Past," as the basis for the series. That storyline set some years in the future shows what happened when mutants were to be captured and imprisoned.
The newest Wolverine & The X-Men DVD entitled Beginning of the End is the next five episodes in the series. These episodes started getting the ball rolling on both teams of X-Men, (the one in the present, and the one 20 years in the future where Xavier has woken up from his coma) trying to do things to prevent certain events from happening and altering the future for the better. For fans of the comics, there are many characters who are introduced during these episodes including Bishop, Marrow, Master Mold, Mystique, Maverick, Sabretooth, Mister Sinister, Multiple Man, Blink, Juggernaut, Vanisher and many more. The series takes all levels of characters from the X-Men franchise and to the casual viewer it’s just more mutants, but to a comic fan like myself it’s fun to point out to my wife and daughters certain characters as they appear in passing or having to do with the plot.
Highlights from these episodes include Professor Xavier and his team of X-Men trying to find any information on the mutant-hunting Sentinels' creator Master Mold so Xavier can get it to Wolverine in the present. A sequel to the episode “X-Calibre” spotlighting Nightcrawler again helping other mutants get to the island Genosha where Magneto is offering all mutants safe haven, discovering that everything isn’t as good as projected, and when he tries to leave is kept a prisoner. Wolverine returning to the Weapon X lab that created him because he’s trying to remember some of his past, only to be attacked by Sabretooth. Cyclops still unconvinced that Jean Grey isn’t dead, just kidnapped by Mister Sinister and his quest to track him down and get her back, (and while he leaves empty handed, the viewers are given a glimpse at Jean’s fate). Magneto sending his acolytes to free several mutant prisoners, while the X-Men must fight to keep them under lock and key.
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